GABBAI IZIDRO (Ysidro), ABRAHAM

GABBAI IZIDRO (Ysidro), ABRAHAM (d. 1755), Sephardi rabbi. A Spanish Marrano, his wife was tried by the Inquisition while he escaped to London and reentered Judaism. He studied later with David Israel Attias in Amsterdam and published in 1724 a sermon containing some interesting autobiographical details. Thereafter he was rabbi in surinam and then barbados . In old age, he returned to London where he died. He left in manuscript a kabbalistic verse commentary, Yad Avraham on the azharot , which was published (Amsterdam, 1758) by his widow, who had settled in Bayonne. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kayserling, Bibl, 48; JHSAP, 29 (1925), 13. (Cecil Roth)